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xiaoma
on Nov 21, 2011
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>Counterexamples? Would love to hear them.
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Along those lines, the smallpox vaccine and X-rays.
parfe
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The smallpox vaccine that eliminated the disease certainly had lesser know and effective predecessor as early as 1770:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox
incremental
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Not really a product, though, so that doesn't count as a good example. Obviously a major discovery with high impact, though.
xiaoma
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Penicillin is produced, distributed and sold. I've bought it more than once and consider it to be a product. What do you feel is the necessary criteria for something to called a product?
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